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Help on nature, climate disclosures

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
A US$20 trillion nature reporting project improves interoperability; accounting body placates concerned investors. Nature-related disclosures Top standards-setter the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) wants to help its 14,000 signatories align with ...

Podcast: Can the market solve climate change? Climate finance with Blair Palese

THE GREENER WAY  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
The US Inflation Reduction Act will crowd in more than $3 trillion US dollars of investment over the next decade. The Future Made in Australia Act has been billed as Australia's response to the US IRA - but are taxpayer dollars better spent elsewhere? ...

Systems thinking to drive alpha, tackle systemic threats

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... building more resilience into their organisation - thinking ahead, more agile organisational design, better culture and stronger risk frameworks will all play their part," Thinking Ahead Institute co-founder Roger Urwin said. "Facing such global challenges ...

Asset managers fast track portfolio targets

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... increase in asset managers setting and disclosing targets highlights our industry's proactive stance on mitigating the financial risk associated with climate change. "This momentum must continue in the Asia-Pacific. We now need to see more granular and ...

ACCR cuts ties with Rio Tinto

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
Mining giant Rio Tinto's political lobbying activities are a greenwashing risk, a breach of public trust, and a form of investor deception, according to ACCR. This week, a prominent shareholder advocacy group announced it cut ties after a year-long ...

ISS ESG to plug emissions data shortfall for banks, insurers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... which would help investors and asset owners allocate capital to businesses that are more adept at managing their climate risk goals. The regulatory deadlines imposed by the government on robust emissions reporting, under the Climate reporting Bill, are ...

UniSuper's environmental option returns -16%

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... well, returning close to -16% for the 12-month period. As such, it was the fund's worst performer for the year. The high-risk option, which had about $1.8 billion invested at February end, invests in listed companies whose activities look to address ...

First Environmental Futures trade on ASX

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... futures contracts will improve access to carbon markets to allow market participants to price and hedge emissions reduction risk. The three futures contracts available today on the ASX 24 Market are: physically delivered Large Generation Certificate ...

QIC taps resilience skills

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... sweeping change to the investment market. The transition to a low-carbon economy which, when layered with physical climate risk, cyber threats, and geopolitical tensions, demands a greater focus on resilience and innovation. QIC Infrastructure sustainability ...

PEP rides ESG tailwinds

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
Australasia's largest private equity firm with $11 billion AUM has launched an investment vehicle across the ditch. PEP's latest investment fund is not advertised as ESG, but has an underlying ESG strategy. Pacific Equity Partners (PEP) says ...